Sema wins Thames Water deal

Sema Group beat ITnet to the seven-year, #22m contract to run Thames Water's IT systems. As part of the deal, the utility's mainframe customer service and financial information systems and 10 staff will move to Sema's data centre based at Andover. All of Thames Water's main applications - currently used by 4,000 employees at 20 different locations - will be covered in the deal.